There’s the chance that reigning NBA Defensive Player of the Year Tyson Chandler returns from his neck injury to face Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, both of who sat out of the Heat’s previous win over the San Antonio Spurs.

There’s also an equally good chance that all three of the aforementioned players sit.

Chandler is still listed as “questionable” and Miami is no longer chasing the 1971-1972 Los Angeles Lakers’ record for consecutive wins, which means any Heat player could have “did not dress” or “DNP-CD” next to his name in the box score. The Heat have even listed Wade (sprained ankle) and James (strained right hamstring) as “day-to-day,” to make any potential absence all the more believable.

The Knicks have an exciting opportunity to take the season series against the Heat with a win (they currently hold a 2-1 lead) but the reality is that this game is a bit of a grab bag.

"Man, like I said, you all make it a bigger deal than it is," Kenyon Martin said, as quoted by Newsday’s Al Iannazzone. "We go out to win every game. Just because it's them and the streak they had, it's a bigger media deal than it is in this locker room. It's just another game we got to play. We're going to go down there to get a win."

“We can’t keep putting that pressure on us, saying this game or that game is a measuring stick,” Anthony agreed, as quoted by Marc Berman of the New York Post. “For us, we’re doing what we’re doing, playing extremely good basketball and they’re coming off a hell of a streak. We’re going out there trying to win a basketball game. It’s not about measuring ourselves against them.”

(FYI, Berman suggested that Heat president Pat Riley will decide if James and Wade will play--not coach Erik Spoelstra)

There’s at least one Knicks player who wants to see the Heat’s full deck.

"I want to see the whole team,” Raymond Felton said after Sunday’s win, as quoted by Peter Botte of the New York Daily News. “But regardless of who they put out there, they still got a Miami Heat jersey. We're gunning for them no matter what. And we're going out there to get a win. They're the defending champs. That's what they are. They're the team to beat. They got the best record in the league right now. They're the best team right now.”

In other Knicks news:

• NJ.com’s Tony Williams compared some of the Knicks’ potential first-round matchups: “Fast forward to the possible first-round matchups for the Knicks. If the season ended today, it'd be the Celtics, as New York is currently the No. 2 seed -- mere percentage points ahead of the Pacers (47-27) -- and Boston seems firmly entrenched into the No. 7 seed. That matchup no longer seems as daunting a task as it may have looked just a couple of weeks ago -- especially with the Celtics also battling injuries, most recently Kevin Garnett.”

• ESPNNewYork.com’s Ian Begley asked if Knicks coach Mike Woodson deserves the credit for the team’s eight-game winning streak: “The Knicks had just won their eighth straight game, and they’d done so with a blend of defense, ball movement and ball protection that Knicks fans hadn’t seen since the first weeks of the season.”

• Begley also discussed the Knicks’ pursuit of 50 wins: “The Knicks have 46 wins with 10 games to play. Of course, no one in the Knick locker room would be satisfied with a 4-6 finish to the season... But 50 wins would be a significant accomplishment for a franchise that floundered for most of the 2000s.”

• Forbes’ Darren Heitner wrote about Amar’e Stoudemire’s self-produced biographical documentary: “Stoudemire has taken personal pride in working with EPIX to develop the documentary in an effort to share his story with all of his fans. ‘It was something where we wanted to capture the moment of me being here in New York and what that actually entails,’ explained Stoudemire in an interview with FORBES. ‘It covers my lifestyle off the court – basketball, business, my training regimen, what it takes to become an all-star and perseverance from injury.’”